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  • "so-called indunas" had held a news briefing on Thursday at the offices of the Inkatha Freedom Party, accusing them of "IFP mischief-making".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Prince Sifiso said the "indunas" were threatened by the king's message of peace as it made inroads into their support base.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • He stressed it was not an IFP march but rather one organised by "indunas".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini's council on Friday rejected claims by PWV "indunas" that they were traditional leaders and lashed out at them for publicly challenging the king.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Lobengula ruled the various districts through 'indunas' or chiefs, who had 'impis' or armies of fighting men at their disposal.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • Again, Mr. Fynney, in his report of his visit to Zululand in 1877, states that though the king and his "indunas" (councillors) denied that men were killed without trial, the people told a very different tale.

    Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Formerly such problems had been handled within families or, in extreme cases, by indunas or chiefs.

    No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

  • Although it was illegal, some indunas charged for this service.

    No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

  • I am asking the indunas to let us build this house carefully so that it is strong.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • No one I spoke to there, from old Gogo and Father Camillus to the doctors at Mosvold and the local indunas, had any doubt that something new and terrifying had arrived in Ingwavuma; what was happening there was more than a new variation on an old theme.

    No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

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